No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I’ll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other’s body,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Ever wait for something you know might not ever happen, but you never give up because you know it's worth it, but… — Junior Vargas Copy Share Image
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is [as] admirable and sound… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of man to expose with laws of doubt & impatience, no feeling of wonder that he should a… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Impatience is a particularly dangerous habit of the heart because everything worthwhile takes time. Good marriages take time. Spiritual maturity takes time.… — Jim Berg Copy Share Image
Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image